The Great Monkey Trial

The Great Monkey Trial
Author: Lyon Sprague De Camp
Publisher: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday
Total Pages: 560
Release: 1968
Genre: Evolution
ISBN:

An account of the "trial of public school teacher John Thomas Scopes for teaching the theory of evolution in class 'held in July 1925, in Dayton, Tennessee.'" -- Library Journal.

Monkey Business

Monkey Business
Author: Marvin N. Olasky
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2005
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780805431575

Media coverage at the time of the Scopes trial was far from accurate. This book sets the record straight, revealing how inaccuracies distorted the view of the Christian faith.

Summer for the Gods

Summer for the Gods
Author: Edward J Larson
Publisher: Basic Books
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2020-06-16
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1541646029

The Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the Scopes Trial and the battle over evolution and creation in America's schools In the summer of 1925, the sleepy hamlet of Dayton, Tennessee, became the setting for one of the twentieth century's most contentious courtroom dramas, pitting William Jennings Bryan and the anti-Darwinists against a teacher named John Scopes, represented by Clarence Darrow and the ACLU, in a famous debate over science, religion, and their place in public education. That trial marked the start of a battle that continues to this day-in cities and states throughout the country. Edward Larson's classic Summer for the Gods -- winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History -- is the single most authoritative account of this pivotal event. An afterword assesses the state of the battle between creationism and evolution, and points the way to how it might potentially be resolved.

Monkey Town

Monkey Town
Author: Ronald Kidd
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2030-12-31
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1439115621

A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.

After the Monkey Trial

After the Monkey Trial
Author: Christopher M. Rios
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2014-08-28
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0823256693

This study sheds light on the work of the evangelical scientists who sought to bridge the cultural divide Christianity and evolutionary theory. In the well-known Scopes “Monkey Trial” of 1925, famously portrayed in the film and play Inherit the Wind, William Jennings Bryan’s clashed with defense attorney Clarence Darrow. The drama, pitting fundamentalist fervor against aggressive agnosticism, illustrated what current scholars call the conflict thesis. Regardless of the actual legal question of the trial, it appeared as though Christianity and science were at war with each other. Decades later, a new generation of evangelical scientists struggled to restore peace. After the Monkey Trial is the compelling history of those evangelical scientists in Britain and America who, unlike their fundamentalist cousins, supported mainstream scientific conclusions of the world and resisted the anti-science impulses of the era. Christopher M. Rios focuses on two organizations, the American Scientific Affiliation and the Research Scientists’ Christian Fellowship (today Christians in Science), who for more than six decades have worked to reshape evangelical engagement with science and redefine what it means to be a creationist.

Trying Biology

Trying Biology
Author: Adam R. Shapiro
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2013-05-21
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 022602959X

In Trying Biology, Adam R. Shapiro convincingly dispels many conventional assumptions about the 1925 Scopes “monkey” trial. Most view it as an event driven primarily by a conflict between science and religion. Countering this, Shapiro shows the importance of timing: the Scopes trial occurred at a crucial moment in the history of biology textbook publishing, education reform in Tennessee, and progressive school reform across the country. He places the trial in this broad context—alongside American Protestant antievolution sentiment—and in doing so sheds new light on the trial and the historical relationship of science and religion in America. For the first time we see how religious objections to evolution became a prevailing concern to the American textbook industry even before the Scopes trial began. Shapiro explores both the development of biology textbooks leading up to the trial and the ways in which the textbook industry created new books and presented them as “responses” to the trial. Today, the controversy continues over textbook warning labels, making Shapiro’s study—particularly as it plays out in one of America’s most famous trials—an original contribution to a timely discussion.

The Scopes "Monkey Trial"

The Scopes
Author: Anne Johnson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007
Genre: Evolution (Biology)
ISBN: 9780780809550

Provides users with a detailed and authoritative overview of this event, as well as the principal figures involved in this pivotal episode in U.S. history.

The Scopes Monkey Trial

The Scopes Monkey Trial
Author: Jim Whiting
Publisher: Mitchell Lane
Total Pages: 73
Release: 2020-02-04
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 154574940X

One of the most famous trials in U.S. History took place in a tiny town in Tennessee in 1925. Dayton was the site of what became known as the Scopes Monkey Trial.The defendant, John T. Scopes, was accused of violating a recently passed state law. This law made it illegal to teach the theory of evolution. Under most circumstances, few people would have paid any attention to the trial.Several of Daytons leading citizens saw a chance to put their town on the map. They were successful. Two of the countrys top lawyersWilliam Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrowsoon became involved. Dozens of reporters poured into Dayton from all over the country. It was the first trial to receive live media coverage.Scopes was found guilty. He had to pay a small fine. But the issues about evolution that the trial raised are still debated today.

The Scopes "Monkey Trial"

The Scopes
Author: Randy Moore
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2022-11-07
Genre: History
ISBN:

This book introduces readers to the "Trial of the Century," revealing how the trial originated, what caused and happened during and after the trial, what happened to the trial's participants, and why the trial still matters nearly 100 years later. Ongoing controversies about school curricula, such as the teaching of Critical Race Theory and the role of parents in public education, can all be traced to the Scopes Trial. Today, the question remains: who controls the school curriculum? This was a foundational issue in the Scopes Trial, and we have been debating this question ever since. This book will help readers understand where these controversies originated and how courts, politicians, and the public handled these issues nearly a century ago. Featuring new information from previously untapped sources and providing an in-depth study of John Scopes himself, this book interrogates the facts, fictions, and legend of the Scopes Trial, which historians rank as one of the defining events of the 20th century. It is an ideal resource for anyone interested in the ongoing controversy about evolution, science, and religion in education and American life.

The Scopes "Monkey" Trial

The Scopes
Author: Sabrina Crewe
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2004-12-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780836834154

Looks at the historic 1925 trial in which a Tennessee high school biology teacher was accused of violating state law by teaching Darwin's theory of evolution, and discusses the impact on America.